Cool: DHS Arrest Thousands Of Illegals In New York

This has got the NY Times and Democrats upset

U.S. Announces Thousands of Arrests in New York Immigration Operation

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Tuesday that immigration officials had arrested 2,197 people in New York State in about a monthlong operation, suggesting an uptick in arrests compared with recent months.

Speaking at a news conference, Mr. Mullin described the enforcement push as a response to the lack of cooperation from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the federal government’s crackdown on unlawful immigrants, which it has named “Operation Rotten Apple.”

“Operation Rotten Apple was an operation we decided to take on because you have a very liberal-slash-socialist mayor here in New York City,” he said. “You have a governor that refuses to work with us.” (snip)

Homeland security officials on Tuesday emphasized that the operation was “not random enforcement” and that they were catching the “worst of the worst” criminals. But as ICE arrests have climbed in recent months, the agency’s operations have increasingly swept up immigrants without criminal records. A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were accused of violating civil immigration laws but had not been charged with or convicted of a crime, a New York Times analysis of federal data found.

Well, bummer, perhaps the Biden regime and the Democrat states and cities shouldn’t have been registering illegal aliens, which makes it super easy for immigration agents to show up where they are and detain them. And if the ones without serious criminal charges and convictions are scooped up, well, bummer, federal law says they should not be here.

At the news conference, Mr. Mullin was flanked by what appeared to be large mug shots with phrases such as “rape” and “kidnapping, murder,” and a Homeland Security news release said that those arrested in the operation included “murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug traffickers and violent assailants.” But Mr. Mullin also indicated that some of those arrested in the past month may not have had criminal records.

“Regardless if you’re a criminal or not, if you entered this country and you cheated, you didn’t come in the legal way, because there are people entering this country every single day legally,” he said.

That’s it. There should be no further article. The law is the law.

In response to a follow-up message from The Times, the department did not offer further clarity. Ms. Hochul, speaking at an unrelated news conference Tuesday, cast doubt on whether the more than 2,000 people arrested in the operation had criminal records.

“There is no way that that number constitutes people committed crimes the way we consider a crime — a crime in New York State,” Ms. Hochul said. “They consider anybody who crossed the border a criminal, so don’t fall for that. That’s what I’m calling out. Do not fall for that.”

The law considers them a criminal and the penalty is deportation.

Mr. Mamdani, appearing alongside the governor, accused ICE of terrorizing immigrants and said the agency was criminalizing “the very act of being an immigrant.”

“We are proud as New York City to be a city that has sanctuary policies,” Mr. Mamdani said. “These are policies that used to be defended by Democrats and Republicans alike. These were policies introduced to ensure every New Yorker would feel comfortable coming forward to report crimes as well.”

This is just insane.